Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
BERNIE SIEGELI always remember the words of George Halas, the owner of the Chicago Bears football team.
More Bernie Siegel Quotes
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I truly feel the best doctors are ones who are criticized by nurses, patients and family. They do not make excuses and learn from their mistakes.
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I believe consciousness is non-local and a big part of what we experience with near death and past lives.
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Those who look on the world with love will need a handkerchief, not to use as a blindfold, but to blow their nose and dry their tears.
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I learned to say, “You didn’t die when you were supposed to so what’s going on?”, and they always had a story to tell me.
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By relaxation, I don’t mean falling asleep in front of the TV set or unwinding with friends. The kind I’m talking about is a quieting of mental activity and withdrawal of body and mind from external stimulation.
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I performed wound care or minor surgery, I would always apologize for any pain I was causing the animal and they would lick my hand and not bite me out of anger due to the pain. They are also far more forgiving than people are of human beings and other animals.
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Don’t do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
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How will you know whether you are letting life teach you and nourish you? If your physical senses become more sensitive to the beauty you see.
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I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn’t attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her. So I realized it’s not about waging a war against everybody’s disease and diagnosis but rather about helping them live.
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Information doesn’t mean a thing to people without inspiration.
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If you love people, you’ll enjoy your life. If you don’t, you won’t love anything you do.
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I grew up with sentiments such as, “Do what will make you happy, troubles are God’s redirections that something good will come from.
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To paraphrase something the anthropologist Ashley Montagu once said, the way I change my life is to act as if I’m the person I want to be. This is, to me, the simplest, wisest advice you can give anyone.
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As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.
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The simple truth is that happy people generally don’t get sick
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